1969-10-01; Central Michigan Life

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LONG B1NH, Vietnam ,(AP) -
The six Green Beret officers
freed of murder charges celebrated Tuesday with a beer bust
and prepared to fly home, while'
the widow of their alleged victim sobbed: ""The' soul of my
husband wlU foUow those who
^foiledhim^.-^ ^ ^.- ^™~
,fThe outcome we never
doubted at any time," said Col.
Robert Rheault, 43, of Vineyard '
Haven, Mass., after Army Secretary Stanley R. Sesor announced In Washington Monday he
and five feUow .officers would
not be  court-martialed in the
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slaying of an .aUeged Vietnamese
double, agent because .the UJS. .
Central Intelligence Agency would, not furnish witnesses.'
"The only question was how
long and how difficult it would
be to prove .the point," Rheault
added as his comrades skylark^
^-for  ^
loudly played the "BaUad of the
Green Berets" on a portable
phonograph and got ready to fly
home.
A few miles from this military ;
post, Mrs'. Pham Kim Lien, widow of the slairv Vietnamese,
screamed: "The Americans are
worse than the Viet Cong!   I'm
going to join the Viet Cong! I'm
going to  blow  up the Americans:. They are more cruel and
savage than' the Communists:"
She cdllapsed in sobs, saying:
"They eUminated my husband
.*0_Lnow they .arefree.. Itjis not
fair. ' The soul of my husband
wiU  follow those who killed
them."
Rheault, the sUm, blond, crew-
cut West Pointer who commanded
the 3,000 Special Forces in Vietnam before he was charged in the
case, made his first public state-
jment about the case in a brief
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Mt.   Pleasant
celebrating
news conference.
He said it involved a **pene-
tration agent ... an agent.who
has penetrated one of your own
operations, who has come under
the guise of a friendly individual."
: _ Asked whether Thai KhacChu-
yen, the Vietnamese who the
Army said was slain by the Green
Berets last June 20, was such
an agent, Rheault said:. "I believe so."
■ He also was asked whether he
could think of any circumstances
"under which homicide might be
justifiable in espionage work."
Replied Rheault, "I don't think
you can. make the terminology
homicide. War is a difficult
and dangerous business. People get killed in war. This is
not to be considered homicide."
Besides Rheault, the officers
facing-courtrmartial-in the, ease ■-
were Maj. Thomas C. Middleton
Jr., 29, of Jefferson, S.C.J Maj.
David E. Crew, 33, of CEDAR
Rapids, Iowa; capt. Leland J.
Brumley, 27, of Duncan, Okla.;
Capt. Budge E. Williams, 27, of.
Athens, Ga., and Capt. Robert
F. Marasco, 27, of Bloomfield,
NJ.
IGAN LIFE
Michigan
Wednesday,    October   1,   1969
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Democrats ally
to student cause
against Vietnam
WASHINGTON (AP) -Two
dozen Democrats in Congress
are preparing to ally themselves with students in escalating the kind of Vietnam policy
dissent which has drawn President Nixon's rebuke.
.Twelve .aec_a__or£-a!__lJL2H<_u__^-
LOOK FAMILIAR? . It's none other than good
olo Mission Street heading north. On the left
side of the photo, which was taken in the early
1900s. is none other than a good ole cornfield*
which later became part of Central Michigan
University today.
Want to go to the moon ?
CLOUDCROFT, N.M.   (AP) -
.    Planning a trip to the moon?
If  Dr.  Kraft  A. Ehricke is
right, it's going to involve six
s^ti&hips  arid 1 something  ii?
ke   seven  days  of  your time.
And dont forget to keep and
eye on your baggage during those
' transfers.
Dr. Ehricke, chief scientific
a iser for advanced programs
at North American RockweU, outfitted his moort travel plan Monday to the International Academy
of Astronautics, which is holding an International orbiting laboratory and space conference. ~
• A typical flight to the moon as
Ehrlck envisions it would begin
at an earth spaceport such as
Cape Kennedy. There, a craft
: would rocket travelers to a rendezvous with an orbiting space
station.
' The travelers, and hopefully
■- their luggage, would take a short
ride by space taxi to the station.   '**      _/■■  " .   ;: .
The station . would be '& giant
* craft boosted into space by-a nu-
.  clear  rocket engine  and  going).
: endlessly on>a 13jday^eggshaped
orbit, passing behind; the 5T?oon
'. and then;returj___ngtosweep,#ound
.. the earth and back, to tiwrmoon
/again;/ *  -;.... /. ."* 4^  ■'    ' .^
The lunar.travelers would re-;,'-.
lak in large, comfortable quarr
\ ters aboard, the station for the „
flight to the vicinity of the. moon;
There, another tiny taxi . would
leave a spacecraft orbiting the
^'-moon and rendezvous with the
» main station.      ■'..,     , .
Passengers would transfer to
the taxi for a short trip to the
moon orbiting craft. From there
they would catch a flight on a
lunar lander. -     .
;    The entire trip would take at
least a week.
Ehriche said his plan would
reduce the cost of space travel,-
because  the vehicles could be
used again and again.
The space shuttle station would
be more than a luxury finer.
It would include laboratories and
be used to ferry suppUes to other
shuttles and moon stations. Most
of its occupants probably would
be scientists.
^ The shuttle would look like a
pencil with an oversized eraser
and would contain living quarters,
laboratories and control rooms.
members have'agreed in general terms to support the plans of
students for an Oct. 15 boycott
of classes to protest the war.
The congressional dissenters
agree Friday that on Oct. 8,
one week before the student protest they wiU propose a resolution seeking U. S. withdrawal
from Vietnam.
One.participant said the resolution would not set a flat dead
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nuuiu umvuCow;  —
a   ojro—
tematic puUout.
Sens. Frank Church of Idaho
and George S. McGovern of SJ).
Faculty in favor of Moratorium
University Senate approved by
a narrow margin Monday a policy of "open-ended" action by
faculty  members -and students'
during the Vietnam Moratorium
scheduled for .Oct. 15.
Faculty members voted totake
whatever action they feU is appropriate. After consulting students in their classes, teachers
may cancel classes, bold discussions, or hold regular class.
sessions. -   .
In addressing the senate, President William B. Boyd said the
Moratorium is of vital concern
''to both the student body and faculty. A major question during
discussion of the Moratorium
was whether CMUstudents are
willing to set up a meaningful
program Oct. 15 and also if the
majority of students 'want an
official- University stand on the'
Spread  the  word... Vietnam
Moratorium  October 15
Fm&^i0er$ity to bm
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<£<
Registration    for Free Unfe'.-
vetirsity begins, tomorrow from
12:30-4:30, across front-the temporary grill in the; University;
Center^v--Fifteen; ;:ifegursesvare
being, offered, this _^ear.;.   -....
Purpose of the,lj>ee~Uni.ref_» /
sity is to give students a chance
to get together and discuss ideas }
in an informal atmosphere. The
classes are open to all students
and there wiU be no tuition charge
or gratdes given.
Cpupses begin Oct* 6 and will
run eight weeks.   Course titles
availabe  are  Where Have ,AU
the IhKUafis Gone?, Ajfro-Ameri-
can History, Sensitivity Training,
.Michigan  Archeological Field
^TeHi^niques, Student Revolutions,
tLoVe,! How Children Learn- and
. j^remaritai.'   . •..■"
-" Others oftediare;;< Tinkering
and Tuning—Auto Care, Against
Racism, Reading and Understanding, Contemporary Poetry, Conservation, Human Relations in
Contemporary Films and Repairing String Instruments. . •'
Issue.
Lou Oates, student body president and Paul Jagenow, student
body vice-president, agreed that
a certain segment of the student
body is interested in an official
statement from the administration .
How yee c«
ewe yoer college
MACKINAC ISLAND .    (AP) -
Mackinac CoUege is up for sale.
The going price is $7.5 million.
The college, founded in 1966
"to prepare individuals to face
the world," has been in .financial difficulties for "-several
years; Rumors., of its closing .
were confirmed Monday by the
manager of the college's business
office'.
C.W. Hodges  said   classes
. would continue until June 1970,
.to allow the charter class, now
seniors, to graduate.
Hodges said the campus with
its 20 heV/ly. constructed build-
ingsr one; for every two .students
is worth considerably more than
the asking price.
The 37 students this year are
cooking their own meals, and
serving themselves, **The staff
is down to bed rock," said Hodges. Tuition, room and board
_ stiii amounts to $2,750.
and Reps. John Brademas of Indiana and Mortis K. UdaU of
Arizona are to draft the proposals.
. An effort also is planned to
get as many senators as possible
onto speaking platforms Oct. 15.
designed to cut attendance to
the point where the Senate couldn't do business that day.	
Sen. Fred R. Harris of Okla-
. noma, the Democratic national .
chairman, arranged the Friday
conference where the plans were
drawn.
Meanwhile, Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore., was said to be
conferring with colleagues. on
the possibility of a withdrawal
resolution, timed to coincide with
the Oct. 15 observance.
Hatfield and Harris both were
reported seeking bipartisan participation-
Sen. Charles GoodeU, R-N.Y.,
already has proposed legislation
. to put a Doc. 1,1970, deadline on
UJS.   withdrawal from Vietnam,
President Nixon told a news
conference Friday that such cutoff proposals .undercut and destroy the U. S. negotiating position.
With backing for his policy at
home, Nixon said, "the enemy
wiU have some Incentive tone-.,
gotiate, recognizing that ... it
is not going to win its objective
by waiting us out..."
» Nixon said by foUowing this
course, "we will end this war
before the end of 1970,"
.Harris called, that statement
" the same old tiling we've
heard before/*
Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania,   New   RepubUcan   leader,
praised  the Nixon statement— ,
even though the rebuke Seemed"
aimed at least partly in his di-,
reetion.
Scott, has suggested half the
U.S. forces be withdrawn by the
end of.1970.
. But the GOP leader issued a
statement saying "J have not
engaged in any , precise demands ... "I am solidly behind
the President's policy of realism-
in the search for a just and lasting peace,"
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